Chef is an Outstanding Film about a Man that Follows His Bliss

If you like movies about cooking, where you can actually taste and hear the food sizzling; excellent script writing, intense acting and general dad-son feel good movies, you will like Chef.

Chef is about a renowned chef working in a five star restaurant who based on his reputation should be at the top of his game. But after a Twitter run-in with a food critic, his whole world blows up in his face when he innocently and angrily responds to the tweet publicly about the lack of creativity in his menu. He quits his job and gets back his passion – inspired cooking.

And there’s lots of footage of food in the film. A lot. By the time the movie ends you will be craving an authentic Cuban sandwich. Evidently, the bread must be slightly toasted brown helped by the gobs of butter heaped on top. Yum. What makes it even better is all that cuisine tasting is accompanied by a constant barge of blues, urban Latino and rocking oldies. You can’t sit still. And neither does he as he goes across the country in pursuit of his dream.

A Netflick junkie, I have to admit I never know what I am going to get when I get my next delivery in my 150+ queue. I picked something light to speed up my five hour plane ride to LA. Many movies are duds. Few are exceptional. Some are light. Some are mindless. Some are funny. Some are monotonous. Every now and then one comes along that seems like it is speaking to your very soul.

Chef was one of those for me. Though there were many motifs in this flick, the one that really called me was to not settle for less than what you really desire. Yeah. We’ve heard this platitude over and over. But when one catches you at the right time in your life, it drives home the message. We become alive when we are fueled by passion which is the reason we are all here to begin with.

There is so much more creativity, network of liked minded folks, better partners, inspiration, dreams and plans that we often never rise to meet. What’s ahead could be better than what is behind. If we only let ourselves rendez vous with that belief, than we become alive again. And if something like a movie speaks to you, then you can bet your oh, by jolly, that you will be inspired to action. Wisdom comes from within.

Oh, and by the way, I am buying the sound track.

And PS. Don’t ever, ever settle!

@chefthemovie

How to Manifest More Time Through Law of Attraction

For those of you that struggle with your vibration in regards to time. This came to me in my morning pages that was inspiring:


Substitute the word ENERGY for TIME. TIME has connotations like the word GOD that gets people into lack or limited belief mode. You have plenty of energy! And time is energy just like money is energy. Start looking at time as energy and you will see your vibration raise to meet your desires. When you have plenty of energy, things work out for you much more efficiently. You get things done. Ideas flow to you. Support comes to you. Things get easier and easier. Energy is unlimited.

Self Love is the Answer

I am like a puzzle of self-love. I have looked for the puzzles pieces outside of me my entire life. And as I realize that those puzzle pieces are all inside me, I no longer have to look elsewhere. And from each area of my life that I find that I had the pieces all along, I become complete. All answers are within.

A mind meant for writing as dreams are begging. Me #writers

Hara Hachi Bu

So this is my second day with the morning pages. Again. I think the hardest days to write will be when I have nothing to say or really not anything troubling on my mind that I am trying to work out. However, if I stick to this, I think great things will come. Great things came yesterday after one day of doing this. But I do love seeing my nimble fingers craft a word that captures an emotion or insight. It is a sigh of relief. It is the artist in me, finally giving way to her bloody birth.

One of the great things that came to mind yesterday was hara hachi bu. Hara hachi bu is a way of life to the people of Okinawa who have been known to live over 100’s year. Their diet is to only eat till 80% full. I adopted this thinking several years ago after reading the book, “Seven Secrets of Slim People.” I whittled down to a size 2 for the first time in life. It took some re-training the mind and patience at first.

As small infants, we naturally listen to our bodies and only eat till we are satisfied. However, as we grow older and listen to our parents and the world to clean our plates, we finish whatever is left whether or not we are. To learn to do this again, takes some practice. You will have many meals where you are not sure if you are eating at a 7, 8 or 9. (1 being starving and 10 being stuffed.) Your body has to get used to that space inside of your stomach. You are satisfied. You could eat more, but your body says, “I am done.”

There are other cues which I picked up from the Seven Secrets books such as only eat when hungry, any feeling of food against your belt is too much food, food starts to taste bland after you are satisfied. It is true. And I stayed a size 2 for several years without much thought until somehow it got away from me.

That’s life. And it happens and it is okay. So I am trying it again. I have no size or weight goal in mind. I think attachment to anything will add undue stress in your life. I accept whatever set point works for me. Now that I am older, it will be interesting to see what a 7 or 8 feels like.

The other added benefit to this diet (I hate to call it a diet but rather a way of thinking), is that I have more energy. When I overeat, my insulin spikes. My energy crashes and I have a strong desire to nap. Lately, I’ve been zooming all over the place with energy. I love mornings now.

Oh, and as for working out, I am still working out 4-5 days a week at thy gym, but I am not obsessing about it. I am not the cardio fiend that I used to be. If I don’t feel like hitting the gym, I will take a walk around the park instead.

Excitement is the more practical synonym for happiness, and it is precisely what you should strive to chase. It is the cure-all. #fourhourworkweek

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